All Things Joyful with Alexa Balsiger

Dear Beth Moore,

Don’t go home…

It’s not that I think you will, it’s just that I need to say it. I know you’re obedient to your calling and you’ve proven over and over to follow Jesus even when “going home” would be easiest. We need you, Beth Moore. We need your teaching, we need your dedication to our Savior, we need your leadership, and we need your humor, among so many other gifts you give. Don’t go home.

Let’s not forget the women you’ve trained up, the women you’ve inspired to step out of their comfort zones and lead, teach, and study God’s word. Let’s not forget the countless women who have studied your studies and grown closer to Jesus because your investment has given them the tools they need. Let’s not forget any of the tiny to mega churches who gather and use your studies and tools to connect women to God, His word, and each other. Don’t go home.

Carry the mantle God’s given you, blaze through those trails and keep making headway for us all. Shine that light and beam it into the eyes of the blind, the disillusioned, the hungry, and the downtrodden. Keep pushing us to study, to think, to ponder, and to love deeper and fiercer. Do all these things, but don’t go home, please, don’t go home.

There’s a fine line of feminism in our culture and Beth, you don’t exhibit feminism teachings or claim to be greater than men. You have taken a call on your life and run with it and displayed what God can do. Women’s voices are needed. Where would we be without the voice of you, Beth Moore? Where would we be without the voices of the women who had courage to lead, teach, and write because of your influence? Do we really believe God couldn’t make you stop if he didn’t want it? Do we really think he couldn’t have given you a different calling? Don’t go home.

As young as elementary school, I knew I would grow up to serve God in a ministry setting somehow. I had voices pouring into me affirming that all through middle school, high school, and college, but I didn’t always know what that would look like (in many ways, I’m still learning and growing and being molded into that). As some influential Christian adult leaders would share with me that women were to only teach women, I felt okay because, I had no desire to be a senior pastor. I didn’t know there were other ministry roles as an elementary student, but I never wanted anyone to make me believe I couldn’t do what God asked me to do because that call was so strong. As I grew and studied the word and listened to the voices of people God was using in instrumental ways, like you, Beth Moore, I knew the anointing and calling on my life was real and I would use it as far as God would allow me. Please don’t go home.

God has taught me so many things through your teachings, Beth Moore, and never once have I believed you’re doing it for yourself. If you were doing it for yourself, you could pack up your cute little manicured Houston self and teach about self help and glamour and be praised by all the women. The in depth studying and passion for the God of the universe that you so deeply portrays is needed and important. Don’t quit teaching about God, don’t quit teaching about His word, don’t stop being passionate about Him, don’t go home.

Why would we want anybody, you or otherwise, who is encouraging our crazy culture to read God’s word, love Him fiercely, and find total victory through the cross of Jesus to “go home”? Let’s promote the voices of truth as loud as we can and hold each other up. For cryin’ out loud, let’s promote each others’ ministry and encourage one another, build each other up, and press on toward the goal which Christ has for us until He returns and calls us all home.

 

 

*This is in response to the circulating video in which John Macarthur is asked to come up with a phrase to respond to certain words. When asked about Beth Moore, he says “Go Home.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNKHqpBcgc